Leopard

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  Some parts were disturbing! Loved it! Plot was well thought out... And just complex enough! Read The Snowman before reading this book. Well worth the time.

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  Nicole Lirette-Pitre said on Jul 23, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I have a thing about Scandinavia and Scandinavian crime thrillers. Having enjoyed Wallander on TV, particularly Krister Henriksson's portrayal, I want to read all of Henning Mankel's series. The Danish TV series The Killing is also very good. Hence when my book group chose Jo Nesbo's The Leopard ... (continue)

  I have a thing about Scandinavia and Scandinavian crime thrillers. Having enjoyed Wallander on TV, particularly Krister Henriksson's portrayal, I want to read all of Henning Mankel's series. The Danish TV series The Killing is also very good. Hence when my book group chose Jo Nesbo's The Leopard I was just a bit excited! Little did I know that The Leopard is the sixth book in the series and having not read any of the others, I feel I'm doing this back to front. On opening the book I was bitten! A big book which I couldn't put down. Like Stieg Larssen's trilogy (I read and watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) it gripped me from beginning to end.
  Nesbo's Detective Harry Hole is not that unlike Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, a troubled man with a bad track record in his relationships with women. Both very focussed on solving their crimes but who run into trouble with their superiors. They break rules to get results.
  I will be reading all of Nesbo's Harry Hole books and I am anticipating that they are all as exciting and good as The Leopard. A must read for all those who like a good crime novel.

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  Booketta said on Nov 26, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  This book sees our favorite Norwegian detective resurrected from a smack den in HK to solve a new serial killer in bad old Norway. There are all your favorites Harry moments - battles with alcohol, bedding the young female detective, far flung travel and of course bad cop/good cop. But the overall t ... (continue)

  This book sees our favorite Norwegian detective resurrected from a smack den in HK to solve a new serial killer in bad old Norway. There are all your favorites Harry moments - battles with alcohol, bedding the young female detective, far flung travel and of course bad cop/good cop. But the overall theme of this story is sadism. The evil one is more evil than all Bond villains combined. Fair enough. But the self inflicted pain and the torture of the victims is beyond narrative to simple torture porn. It's a shame because the series has been free of this to date. My only reasoning is that the story is supposed to parallel the decline of Hole's moral and life standing. But it's lost in the familiar, expected Harry approach to life and crime. And hence becomes a shlock fest.

  A disappointing follow up to Snowman. Interested to see Jo has written another Harry story. Hope for the best

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  John Trigg said on Sep 24, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Loved it!!!!! Just the right pace and suspense to keep you hooked till the end! Great translation and smart dialogue too.
  Loved discovering another side of Harry Hole besides his amazing and sometimes supernatural talent to solve crimes.

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  Nini said on Jul 24, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 613 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1846554012
• ISBN-13: 9781846554018
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Pub date: Jan 20, 2011
• Dimensions: 1471 mm x 994 mm x 297 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Norske Bøker, Svenska böcker, Suomenkielisiä kirjoja

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